Major Fruit Crops Quarterly Bulletin, January-March 2017
May 2017
Calamansi
- The January-March 2017 production of calamansi was estimated at 14.99 thousand metric tons which was 4.4 percent lower than last year’s 15.69 thousand metric tons. This decline in output was caused by the following factors:
- decrease in number of bear ing trees in Quezon due to Typhoon “Nina” in December 2016; and
- drop in yield in Batangas due to effect of fruit flies during flowering and in Davao del Norte due to damages brought by heavy rains during the flowering and fruiting stages.
- decrease in number of bear ing trees in Quezon due to Typhoon “Nina” in December 2016; and
- The top calamansi producers and their shares during the period were MIMAROPA with 16.9 percent; CALABARZON, 15.7 percent; and Central Luzon, with 14.3 percent.
